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Schedule of Main Events |
Session 1. Next steps in biobank networking and harmonisation Session 2. Biobank networking in Africa and the Middle East Session 3. Challenges and opportunities in the provision of biospecimens for clinical trials Session 4. Challenges and opportunities for museum biobanks & environmental specimen banks Poster discussion session Session 5. Biobanking economics: how to justify and maintain long-term funding Working groups: session 1 Session 6. Ethical, legal and social issues presented by the advent of personalised medicine Session 7. Networking of veterinary biobanks Society forum Session 8. Integrating research biobanking with the provision of healthcare services Session 9. Museum biobanking and quality assurance/control: contributed papers Working groups: session 2 Session 10. Novel technologies: contributed papers Session 11. Biobanks & biobank networks: contributed papers Special Session on Controversies in Biobanking: "The Bio-PIN Concept" Session 12. Scientific and technological advances that are helping to measure and to
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Satellite Meetings |
BioSHaRE Meeting: All day on Tuesday 15th Cancéropôle Meeting: Afternoon on Tuesday 15th and the morning of Wednesday 16th Marble Arch Meeting: All day on Tuesday 15th and the morning of Wednesday 16th. Meetings in Salon Provence. Tuesday lunch in Borely 6. Marble Arch Dinner: 08:00pm on Tuesday 15th. Restaurant La Villa, rue Mermoz, 13008 Marseille, France FIBO Meeting: The morning of Wednesday 16th. Salon Panoramique. |
ESBB Meetings & Events |
ESBB Executive Committee Meeting: The morning of Wednesday 16th. Meeting in Salon Planier. Lunch in Salon Talabot. Bio Editorial Board Lunch: 01:00pm Thursday 17th. Salon Talabot. ESBB Committees Dinner: 08:00pm Thurs 17th. Restaurant Le Rhul, 269, corniche Kennedy, 13007 Marseille. Restaurant specialty: La Bouillabaisse! Conference Exhibitors Breakfast Meeting: 08:00 - 09:00am on Friday 18th Conference Gala Dinner: 08:00pm Friday 18th. Restaurant La Nautique, 20 Quai de Rive Neuve, Vieux-Port, 13007 Marseille Programme Committee Breakfast Meeting: 08:00 - 09:00am on Saturday 19th Social Event: Wine tasting at the Cassis Vineyards on Saturday afternoon |
Wednesday 16th
There will be two plenary sessions in the afternoon. These will be held in the main auditorium. They will be followed by a cocktail reception in the evening
Thursday 17th
The morning starts with concurrent sessions in the main auditorium and the Borely 3 satellite meeting room. After refreshments and viewing of posters and exhibits, there will be the first meeting for working groups, where delegates will be informed about existing ISBER working groups. This will be followed by lunch and another plenary session. The programme ends on this day with the poster discussion session, which will involve a series of 4 minute presentations, on a total of 30 posters.
Friday 18th
The morning starts again with concurrent sessions in the main auditorium and the Borely 3 satellite meeting room. A poster viewing session will follow. Please note that poster presenters are asked to stand beside their posters during the poster viewing sessions on Friday (11:00-12:00nn and 4:00-5:00pm) to faciliate discussion. There will be a Society Forum before lunch on Friday, which is an opportunity to learn about ESBB and to discuss the future of the society. In the afternoon there will be two sets of concurrent sessions in the main auditorium and the Borely 3 satellite meeting room. The Gala Dinner will be held in the evening.
Saturday 19th
The first main session is a special plenary session on the Bio-PIN Concept starting at 09:00am. This is followed by the second working group session, and this will provide ESBB members with the chance to join existing ISBER working groups, and also to form new ESBB working groups to address problems that are specific to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The final session is a plenary session from 12:00nn to 01:30pm. After lunch there will be an optional social event: Wine tasting at the Cassis Vineyards.
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